By Lynn Binnie
Whitewater Banner volunteer staff
whitewaterbanner@gmail.com

Interim Chancellor John Chenoweth recently announced that Associate Vice Chancellor Kenny Yarbrough will be leaving UW-Whitewater in January. Yarbrough has served as the inaugural Associate Vice Chancellor of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Support Programs (EDIS) for the past four years. This week Lawrence University in Appleton announced that Yarbrough will soon be assuming a similar position there.

Chenoweth also announced that Vanessa Perez will lead the EDIS programs “for the foreseeable future,” while also indicating that Perez has been appointed as the permanent Assistant Vice Chancellor for the division.

Per the chancellor, “This fall the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater was once again named a College of Distinction for Equity and Inclusion. This designation was only possible thanks to the genuine commitment of our faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community. Our work in this space is important and recognized, but we realize we have much more to do.”